Discovering Discovery Gateway

While my brother and fam were here, my mom and I thought it would be fun to take the Traxx downtown with the kids and go to the Discovery Gateway Museum. Which is basically a hands on, figure it out yourself, display of fun and inovative ways to play and learn at the same time. I was really pleasantly surprised at the interesting things to do.

The first activity they had was a kind of wind tunnel made of bendable tubes. Here is Bumbles putting a ball into the tube and when the door closed the wind forces it up through a long tube high above the kids' heads. Bumbles is behind a yellow plexi-glass, which makes the pictures kind of funny looking, but you get the idea.

Then it was time for some water fun. Bumbles had a blast playing in the water sinks and canals.

I think Bumbles loved the water sinks the most!

Then we decided to cool off in the Gateway's "Olympic" fountains. At the other end of the mall.

Carter would rather watch with Grandpa Mathews in the shade.

Then it was time to get back home on Traxx, our local rail transportation system.

The kids all had a great day, and the adults too! I especially liked the fact that my husband works in an office building right next to the Gateway Mall and he got to take a couple of breaks, one to join us for lunch and the other to be with us at the fountains.

More Summer Fun

In JULY, at the beginning of my morning sickness, my brother and his family surprised us and came to see the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house, so their kids could have the opportunity to see what a temple looks like inside. It is such a beautiful temple. It was great to finally go to an open house for a temple. The last one we planned to go to was the Draper Temple's, but I ended up having a D and C for a miscarriage on that day.

At any rate, we had a wonderful experience walking through the beautiful Oquirrh Mountain temple. It was great to be able to walk through the whole temple, from the baptismal font to the sealing rooms in one visit. When I go I usually only see one or two areas of the temple, to do the specific ordinances I came there to do.

Here is a picture of us in the orientation tent before we walked through the temple.( the picture is a little fuzzy because I had a smudge on my lens and didn't notice it until later that day at Boondocks) I am the one taking the picture. :)

My brother and sister-in-law are just behind us and the kids.

I love this one of the kids walking to the temple, just enjoying being together

Sweetie and Bumbles at the back of the temple after the tour

And I couldn't leave this one out of Moroni after he was hit by lightening, if you look closely at the picture you can see the burnt arm holding the trumpet. It has since been changed before the temple being dedicated.

After the temple tour, it was off to Boondocks. Miss was very patient, because this was a reward for getting the grades we agreed she had to get by the end of her 8th grade year. She took summer gym to open a period up in 9th grade, which took all of June and didn't have the chance to get to Boondocks until after the class was over.

And as a bonus, her cousins (and Aunt and Uncle) came for the surprise visit at just the right time to go with us.

Here is Miss' jackpot win, I think she got about 200 tickets in one move on this game. This is Uncle Chuck folding them for her.

The race cars were the most fun!

Miss took the drivers seat, while I got to ride along. She did very well for her first drive. Very careful driver. Most likely because mom was watching. :)

I wish I had a picture of Aunt Carolyn, strolling along with Bumbles while we stood in line for the race track, it was so adorable. I think they bonded.

Uncle Chuck helped bumbles out on is first round of (mini) golf.

I just have to share this video of Bumbles putting..... he really got into it.....